A meeting to discuss a possible long-distance Quabbin-to-Cardigan hiking trail in western New Hampshire will be held at Colby-Sawyer College, Ivey Science Center, in New London, April 12 from 6 to 8 p.m. All are welcome.

Hiking groups and land conservation organizations are evaluating whether it is possible to create a long, inter-connected trail from the Massachusetts / Hampshire border to Mt. Cardigan and beyond to the White Mountains.

The idea came out of the Quabbin-to-Cardigan (Q2c) Partnership, an initiative to protect the region’s unfragmented forest blocks for ecological and recreational purposes, said Lelia Mellen with the National Park Service.

The region’s existing trail networks, such as the Monadnock-Sunapee Greenway and Sunapee-Ragged-Kearsarge Greenway, could perhaps connect with other hiking trails to the north and with trails where they do not know exist. Meeting participants will be able to look at maps and share their ideas and questions.